Description
The CORE Concepts® Course is a high-quality, convenient program to sharpen your skills as a diabetes care and education specialist. Learn online in a collaborative group of like-minded professionals in this 9-week self-paced session.
You will learn the essentials of DSME with interactive online lessons, collaborative case study sessions, quizzes, and group discussion boards. Many of our learners have found the CORE Concepts Online Course to be a great way to help prepare for the CDCES credentialling exam.
The goal of the ADCES Online CORE Concepts® Course is to increase knowledge of the diabetes disease state, sharpen clinical management skills, and highlight self-management education techniques and tools that are most appropriate for assuring successful outcomes to the ADCES7 Self-Care Behaviors®.
This 9-week online course
is recommended for health care professionals who have at
least 2 years' experience in diabetes care and education
and who know that online learning is a suitable fit with your learning style.
Please note that diabetes care and education specialists should always adhere to their clinical scope of practice when providing patient care and DSMES. Participants, with the assistance of course facilitators, will explore the scientific basis for diabetes education and care, while artfully applying concepts to patient situations, through case studies and online
discussion.
Continuing Education Credit: [Hours TBA - expected to be approved for 30 hours CE]
Required Textbook
This course is an in-depth review of the concepts of diabetes
self-management education. The Art and Science of Diabetes Care and Education is
mandatory reading for this course. It is NOT
included with course registration. If you currently do not have this book, please
purchase the textbook separately.
The textbook is available for purchase in both printed and eBook formats.
Intended Audience
This learning is designed for diabetes care and education specialists,
including nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians,
PAs, and other health care providers interested in staying up to date on
current practices of care for people with diabetes and other related
conditions.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, participants should be able
to:
• Assess stage of change and motivation to change.
• Review the key components of effective behavior change goals using the SMART
acronym.
• Describe prevalence and incidence of diabetes.
• Identify resources for and aspects of planning, implementing, and evaluating
a DSME program.
• Distinguish pathophysiological differences between prediabetes, type 1, type
2, and GDM.
• Compare differences between DKA and HHS, as well as possible
treatments.
• Formulate individualized goals of therapy based on patient-specific
characteristics.
• Differentiate acute and chronic complications.
• Create a drug therapy plan that includes blood pressure and dietary changes,
for people with diabetic nephropathy.
• Summarize approaches to pain management and describe autonomic nephropathy
conditions.
• Identify and problem solve barriers to change and high-risk situations.
• Discuss current and new therapeutic options for the treatment of diabetes and
obesity.
• Determine optimal therapeutic regimens for patients with diabetes to achieve
individualized cardiometabolic goals.
• Select appropriate insulin preparations for patients based on the
pharmacokinetic profile, acquisition cost, and individualized glycemic
goals.
Nine modules will be covered over the 9-week period:
• Module 1: Clinical Management of Diabetes and Cardiometabolic
Conditions
• Module 2: Healthy Coping
• Module 3: Reducing Risk
• Module 4: Taking Medications
• Module 5: Healthy Eating
• Module 6: Monitoring
• Module 7: Being Active
• Module 8: Communication and Problem Solving
• Module 9: Advocacy and Care Delivery
Activity Type
This is an application-based learning activity.
2025 Dates
Session space is limited. Dates are subject to
change.
Winter: January 16 - March 27, 2025
Spring: April 10 - June 11, 2025
Summer: Dates TBA
Fall: Dates TBA
How It Works
- You are required to purchase or
currently have access to the textbook The Art and Science of Diabetes
Care and Education, 6th edition.
- The nine-week course will include
learning modules and readings, plus a final exam after the modules are
completed. The modules include readings, online activities, and discussion
board interactions based on case studies.
- Registrants will receive course
information via email one week before the start of the session, and online
access will be provided two days before the official start of the session.
- Learners can expect to devote about 4-5
hours a week to complete all material.
- Each session will have small groups for
discussion with other participants and experienced facilitators. Communication
will occur within the online discussion boards (communication forums).
- Learners can work on the course at
their own convenience. However, to ensure active discussions, discussion
participation for each module must be completed within the one-week time frame
designated for that module in the course syllabus.
- The final exam period will start a few
days before the course session ends and extend a week past the course session
end date
- Course is pass/fail.
- Each
participant will be expected to post a minimum of 3-4 messages on the
discussion boards for each module.
- Final exam must
be passed with a minimum of 70% to pass. Three attempts are allowed.
- Certificate of
credit issued upon successful completion of the course and passing the Final
Exam.
- We recommend that you stay on track
with the syllabus each week, so you don't fall behind (e.g., you can work for
one hour and then log off and come back three days later and work for another
hour or two).
Joint Providership
None
Financial Support
None